The Music Lives On
The music lives on that Aisling played She lives on in the hearts she touched, the friends she made The children she …
Paul Polansky Sat In My Kitchen
The Serbian resident US poet and human rights activist Paul Polansky visited my humble flat some years back. As usual, my place …
Remembering a Working Man – Vincent Wynter RIP
The love of the literature of the people, The politics of the worker to be what he can The history he was …
Final Whistle Blown
The match is over, over early, the final whistle has blown Its back to the dressing room, where he is among his …
The Last Handshake
Closed as begun in brotherly love In harmony home our ways we make Little think regarless of each others age This just …
Civilians Slain – An Empire Saved
The sight of the Dillon family emerging from their house waving a white flag in Moore Street being shot down by snipers …
Scene of the Rhyme @ F-15 Festival
Scene of the Rhyme perform spoken word @ F-15, The Foundation Arts festival held yearly in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Featuring Richard Brennan, …
The Old Bond Store Ghost
ghost tale from Tullamore retold in verse, first told by Walter Burke, former leasee of the bar in the Tullamore Dew Heritage …
Vibe of the Tribe: Castlepalooza and Scene of the Rhyme 2015
The Scene of the Rhyme featuring Tullamore Rhymers Club featured both in Joe Lees as its own monthly night, and as the …
Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia
I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be …
Being the Sacrificial Lamb at Amusings, Amazing night at Scene of the Rhyme, Getting our Breath back after Body and Soul
Next up is the Valentia Island festival – as we in the Tullamore Rhymers Club sort out our line up Im not …
Jolly Freemasons Clarifications of Confusions
A humerus explanation of masonry, of which I am a member, which in typical Carty fashion causes more confusion than clarification! There …
Scene of the Rhyme Relaunch in Lees under new MC
Tullamore’s poetry and music night The Scene of the Rhyme was relaunched under the capable MC skills of Richard Brennan, Cormac Lally …
Swans on the Grand Canal at Tullamore
For all that’s wrong in the world, what to worry of we choose Ebola, and Al-Qaeda, all the nonsense in the news …
Curtain falls on the Final Scene of the Rhyme in Joe Lees in Tullamore
The curtain has fallen on Tullamore’s Scene of the Rhyme events in Joe Lees, which from a few short months ago – …
Whats the Story with the Ducks? Luan Parle and Clive Barnes play Hugh Lynch’s
In what must be the strangest question ever to be asked by an audience member, Clive Barnes explained the story behind the …
Piecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
Death walks among us. In every town and village in Ireland, in all communities, even the Irish Traveller community in which it …
Marching for Water in Tullamore
Rain falls from where some denied it falls Washed the streets over which protesters calls Echos to where the water falls from: …
Brendan Bowyer Rocks Tullamore with aid of Tullamore Rhymers
When one thinks of Brendan Bowyer, they think of the Showbands, and not of the current music scene, and with that thinking …
A Crazy Week – Scottish Turkeys Vote for Christmas – Culture Week – Stink Kicked Up Over Banagher Fair – Blog
Its been a crazy week, a stink has been kicked up over the shit that was raised that led to a man …